Scientific Name: Hydrocotyle foveolata

Common Name: yellow pennywort

Family Classification (Clade): Eudicots

Family: Araliaceae

Form Description: Erect herb with deeply divided leaves, each with 3-5 leaflets. Each leaflet is 3-toothed.

Fruit: Mericarp – oval shaped, slightly flattened and with a wrinkly or ridged surface. It is 2mm long, and has a row of thin dry hairs, up to 1mm long, at the tip.

Municipality
Break O’DayBrightonCentral HighlandsClarenceDorsetFlindersGeorge TownGlenorchyKingboroughLatrobeLauncestonNorthern MidlandsSouthern MidlandsTasman
Plant Communities
No data available for this species
Habitat Notes

Woodland on sandy or loamy soils.

Propagation Calendar

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Propagation Method
Seed, Cuttings, Division

Seed Information

Seed Collection

As seed collection is tedious propagation is generally by division, which is easy.

Seed Treatment Notes

No treatment required.

Cutting & Division Information

Propagate from cuttings, or by division of rhizomes, which is easy. Rooted segments may be heeled in to their final positions so long as they are kept well-watered until established.